Definition of Tip tool

Jargon for a tournament chart, showing which players are playing against whom and what the results are. Often shortened to card.

This is a style of play where the player is required to stay on top of all the scoring practices. Scratches and points will disappear if they are not remembered.

This is to take all the money from a player or to have lost all of your own money.

Also shake bottle, pea bottle, pill bottle, kelly bottle, tally bottle. The bottle used in various games to hold numbered peas, it is employed to assign random spots to players in a roster (such as in a tournament), or to assign random balls to players of a game.

Chiefly British: The rail at the Top of the table. Compare foot rail; contrast Bottom rail.

This is the white ball in carom games which is separated from the clear ball by a marking (usually a dot or spot).

Same as foot spot. Chiefly British today, but also an American usage ca. World War I.

Either of the two shorter rails on a standard pool, billiards or snooker table. Contrast side rail/long rail.

USA Pool League. A pool league structured exclusively around eight-ball match play.

A set practice routine.
In British terminology, a bank shot.

Also known as "Break and Dish". In pool games, when a player breaks the racked object balls, pockets at least one ball on the break, and commences to run out the remaining object balls without the opponent getting a visit at the table.

Any shot that intentionally accounts for the elasticity of the cushions to allow a ball to bank past an otherwise blocking ball. The moving ball will sink in to the cushion very near the blocking ball giving it sufficient space to get past it or kiss off the back side of it.

Same as centre pocket.

This is a style of playing a pool game with a partner playing on your team. You can either take turns or play in a tag team style. This works well when there are a lot of people around that want to play.
A form of team play in which two players compete against another team of two players in any given frame or match. In a doubles game, the first player from the breaking team is the only one who shoots during the opening inning, with control of the table passing to a member of the opposing team at the end of that inning, then upon the end of the opponent's inning to the doubles partner of the original player, and next to the second opponent, play proceeding in this doubly alternating manner until concluded. Contrast Scotch doubles.

Same as center spot.

A British term (especially in snooker) for the splitting of a group of balls when another ball is sent into them, typically with the intent of deliberately moving them with the cue ball to develop them.

A cue dedicated to jumping balls; usually shorter and lighter than a playing cue and having a wider, hard tip. Also referred to as a jump stick.

A short, jabbed draw stroke usually employed so as to not commit a foul (i.e. due to following through to a double hit) when the cue ball is very near to the target object ball.

A British term for someone with little experience or understanding of the game, who may be skilled at potting individual balls but does not consider tactics such as position or safety; "he's a potter not a player." See also banger.

A pool room employee who plays with a good degree of skill.

To play even; without a handicap. Also called heads up.

Same as side rail.

Either of the two shorter rails of a billiards or pocket billiards table.

This is a handicapping method where one player gets the break, and is allowed to choose any ball afterwards to put in their pocket.